Analysis of the Scientific Publication of Libyan State: A Bibliometric Review

This paper provides a detailed bibliometric analysis of the Libyan State’s scientific publications (Libya). The study is based on data from the well-known Scopus database. The study spans the years 1948 to 2022. The study examines the growth of annual publications and citations. It has been demonstrated that over the last five years, 36% of total publications and 66% of total citations have been achieved. Science mapping activities such as co-occurrence and co-citation networks were used to reveal thematic clustering and research topic trends. The top source title with the most articles is the 2021 1ST MI-STA conference, which has 142 articles. The LANCET journal is the most frequently cited locally, with 1181 articles citing it, and the most prolific author is Dr. ElHadi from the University of Tripoli with 76 articles.